On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Christophe Fergeau <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Vincent, > > 2009/4/22 Vincent Untz <[email protected]> >> >> - When committing code on behalf of others use the --author option, e.g. >> git commit -a --author "Joe Coder <[email protected]>" and --signoff. >> >> ======================================================== >> >> >> Opinions? > > Not sure about the --signoff part. The committer email/name is already > silently added to the commit by git even when using --author. Moreover, When > reading the "12) Sign your work " section of SubmittingPatches from the > linux kernel source ( > http://lxr.linux.no/linux/Documentation/SubmttingPatches ), it seems to me > that using SignedOffBy is useless if the initial author of the patch didn't > use it : > > "The sign-off is a simple line at the end of the explanation for the patch, > which certifies that you wrote it or otherwise have the right to pass it on > as a open-source patch." (snipped a lot of explanations after this sentence)
There was a recent discussion on this, http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-infrastructure/2009-April/msg00011.html Simos _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
